Since labor created the world and human beings appeared, the eating and drinking life phenomenon of this animal muscle body and its living environment has also emerged. Human food civilization has experienced three stages: raw food, cooked food and cooked food, and the start and end times of these three stages are different in different countries and nationalities.

To. In China, the division of raw food, cooked food and cooking is generally based on the fire used by Peking Man Society and the pottery invented 1 10,000 years ago.

In other words, our ancestors experienced a hard journey of 1.7 million years, from raw food to cooked food, from flint to boiled salt, until they learned to make the earliest household utensils-clay pots. As a symbol of civilization, cooking technology began in China and summer. Our motherland is one of the cradles of world civilization. 1.7 million years ago, "Apes are different" was the earliest group of people in China-Yuanmou Apes. Yuanmou people, Lantian people who appeared 600,000 years ago and Beijingers who appeared 500,000 years ago are collectively called "apes". They live in groups in caves or trees, get together to hunt, get together, share their labor income equally, and live a life of "eating raw food", which is the "raw food" stage in the history of drinking and eating in China. About 500,000 years ago, our ancestors learned to make a fire by hand. The Maba people, Changyang people, Dingcun people, Liujiang people, Ziyang people, Hetao people and cavemen who appeared continuously after Peking man were called "ancients" or "newcomers" by textual research scholars.

Unearthed cultural relics prove that the "ancients" or "new humans" did their best to keep people in the original state, but they have learned to barbecue food with fire, melt ice to get water, dry caves, keep warm by the light, and defend themselves against wild animals, and entered the "cooked food" stage in the history of China's diet. The greatest contribution of cooked food is that it prepares material fragments for the birth of cooking technology from the aspects of fuel and raw materials. China society entered the late Paleolithic period, about 1 0,000 years ago, and the productive forces had developed, eventually forming a clan society, and the original goods were exchanged. These are all articles for cooking birthday. In particular, it is necessary to make suitable scrapers, carving knives, stone knives and bone vertebrae, make a fire through friction, learn soil burners, and provide essential tools and equipment for the birth of cooking technology. In addition, the emergence, preparation and exchange of salt, and the collection and utilization of plum, bitter gourd, wild honey and vanilla have all solved the problem of seasoning products. At this point, China's cooking method has been prepared from the beginning, and the history of eating and drinking in China has turned a brand-new "cooking" page.

In the field of science and technology, another sign is to turn cooking with fire into cooking. This sign is called the embryonic period of China cooking, that is, the period of cooking with fire. The development of cooking is a milestone for China people to enter civilization from ignorance, a ladder for "new man" to "modern man", and a contact medium for paleolithic to Neolithic transformation. The Uyghur system is of great significance to the prosperity of China people, the development of productive forces, social progress and the construction of civilization and spiritual civilization. The development of China cuisine can be divided into five periods: Pre-Qin, Han and Wei Dynasties, Six Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.